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Way ahead of you. There have been lots of schemes to encourage more men to get into nursing, and lots of research to understand the problem.

Here are some overviews:

https://journals.lww.com/ajnon...

https://minoritynurse.com/more...

Same with teaching. It's particularly bad in primary level, where children need male role models. The BBC is a good starting point:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-...

And these guys if course:

http://www.malesinteaching.com...

Why isn't there a similar push to get men into kindergarten education or nursing?

But there are similiar pushes.

Acknowledging it just doesn't fit your pre-ordained conclusions.

How come there aren't any people complaining that there are VASTLY more women in nursing than men.

There are. For example, have a look at organizations devoted to recruiting more men, like the American Assembly for Men in Nursing or the "Are you man enough to be a nurse?" campaign. Also see various studies and concerns about the issue on the Minority Nurse page. It's really a complicated issue, and organizations like this have really been trying to figure out recruitment efforts.

Maybe there should be more "people complaining" about this issue, but your assertion that "there aren't any" is just untrue. The fact is that we have a shortage of qualified nurses that is only projected to get worse, and many of these organizations, many hospitals, etc. would be extremely happy if they could get more male nurses, or get more men who are currently unemployed or in crappy jobs in this economy to go to nursing school. But it doesn't help the stereotype when just about every portrayal of a male nurse on television or film is usually made to be the butt of jokes and ridicule.

NBA is granted permission to be gender segregated by the US congress. I don't really approve, but it is the law.

We do have programs to work on gender ratios in Nursing, teaching, and Salons aren't exactly a career people aspire to, as if that were equivalent.

The difference is feminists don't come whining about people trying to make progress in these areas because they feel threatened. They welcome the break in stigmatized job roles.

MRAs, on the other hand, just love to pretend any attempt at social progress are an attempt to discriminate. And their whines pierce the vale of every single debate.

Where's the big push to get men working as nurses, librarians, grade-school teachers, secretaries, and any number of other female dominated professions? Oh, because talking about that is *sexist*.

Fucking lazy ignorant moron. About 10 seconds of googling yields:

http://www.minoritynurse.com/a...
http://newsroom.taylorandfranc...

But don't let your lazyness and ignorance get in the way of firmly held opinions.

The continue reporting of women in IT is getting tiresome. Consider that according to the latest statistics on nursing

• There are 3,063,162 licensed registered nurses in the United States
• Approximately 294,063 RNs are men – only 9.6% of the total nursing population.
• Only 10.6% of all RNs are under the age of 30. The average age of the RN population in the United States is 46 years.
• The median age for male RNs licensed in 2000 or later is 35, compared with 31 for female RNs.
• Minorities:
  • Approximately 5.4% are Black or African American (non-Hispanic)
  • 5.5% are Asian (non-Hispanic)
  • 0.3% are Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic)
  • 3.6% are Hispanic or Latino
  • 0.3% are American Indian or Alaskan Native (non-Hispanic)
  • 1.7% categorize themselves as two or more races and non-Hispanic
  • Asian/Pacific Islander nurses are more likely than all other nurses to have at least baccalaureate preparation.
  • 14.6% of black nurses have master's or doctoral degrees, compared to 13.4% of Caucasian nurses.

And we see the nursing field is just as skewed with regards gender and race, but rarely do we see regular reports about it. So why is all the focus on IT? Simple, the focus of these reports is only about job fields that are unbalanced with regards female participation. Take a look at teaching as well, how many men are there in elementary teacher positions? So heavily male dominated professions are pressured to recruit more women but heavily female dominated ones are not pressured the same way. Here's an idea, how about we stop all this BS and just let people do the damn jobs they want to do?

Are women a minority in other sciences?
Based on enrollment in engineering studies they are a distinct minority (17.7% in 2009 per the NSF PDF):
http://www.nsf.gov/statistics/wmpd/2013/pdf/tab2-9.pdf

Given that, I would expect that under 20% of software engineers would be women (in no year did the % enrolled exceed 20%).

An individual, regardless of gender, must choose to go into engineering(software included), usually via a degree program (I went actuarial and then moved into software development - but I had a lot of software development experience previously, into architecture/process optimization now).

As an alternate example, men only represent about 10% of the Registered Nurse population (not sure of the year):
http://www.minoritynurse.com/minority-nursing-statistics

I see no issue or sexism based on the number of women entering engineering sciences. I imagine the stats generally follow the % by gender that seek such degrees.

As long as nothing is unfairly barring the opportunity, I don't see that anything else matters.

94.2% of nurses are women, but I neither see any need to shift that to 46% (because women are 54% of society) nor anything in nursing preventing men who do want to be nurses from doing so.

source: http://www.minoritynurse.com/minority-nursing-statistics

Yeah, your'e right - nobody has even noticed a shortage of men in nursing, or tried to do anything about it!

Gonna let you in on a little secret, friend: that attitude you just displayed? "Women aren't in these fields because they're simply NOT INTERESTED!" Yeah, that's called sexism.

There is NO evidence to suggest that women can't (or don't want to) do math for biological reasons - i.e., as a result of their gender. In fact, it's been demonstrated that the purported "gender gap" in science and math performance is a myth. Your suggestion that lack of interest in science or math is somehow "inherent" to being a female is an extraordinary claim, and one for which you've offered no proof, much less extraordinary proof.

But I agree with you: As long as there are sexists like you telling women to get back in the kitchen because math and science are just too hard for their poor widdle bwains, then yeah, these campaigns are silly and useless - because any intelligent woman will take one look at the line of bullshit you're trying to feed her, turn 180 degrees, and walk away.

Where are the research papers about how to get more men into Nursing? Or men into elementary education? How about Men into being stay at home dads? Men being "Admin Assistants"?

Why does it seem that "gender equality" only a one way street?

Because you haven't noticed that it is a two way street?

http://www.minoritynurse.com/men-nursing/recruiting-men-nursing-school

Even better, you should start singing "Let's Get More Men Into Nursing"

Dan Goggin Digital Sheet Music

http://www.musicnotes.com/sheetmusic/mtdVPE.asp?ppn=MN0058742